A Killer’s Confession and Dogma have announced a November U.S. tour. Here’s the dates:
11/11 Pittsburgh, PA – Crafthouse
11/12 Leesburg, VA – Tally Ho Theater
11/13 Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz
11/14 Harrisburg, PA – Capitol City Music Hall
11/15 Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater
11/17 Hobart, IN – The Art Theater
11/18 Grand Rapids, MI – The Stache @ Intersection
11/19 Columbus, OH – The King Of Clubs
11/20 Cadillac, MI – Venue Event Center
11/21 Joliet, IL – The Forge
11/22 Ringle, WI – Q & Z Expo
11/23 Westland, MI – Token Lounge
System Of A Down have added three more dates to their European/UK tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath. This includes second nights in London, Paris, and Warsaw. Here’s the updated schedule:
06/29 Stockholm, SWE – Strawberry Arena
07/02 Paris, FRA – Stade de France
07/04 Paris, FRA – Stade de France
07/06 Milan, ITA – Ippodromo Snai la Maura
07/08 Berlin, GER – Olympiastadion
07/10 Dusseldorf, GER – Open Air Park Dusseldorf
07/13 London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/15 London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/18 Warsaw, POL – PGE Narodowy
07/19 Warsaw, POL – PGE Narodowy
The new Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne documentary, “Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home,” is set to air on October 2 via BBC One. The film was previously delayed following a request from the family in the wake of the singer’s death. The film will focus on the Osbournes move back to the UK.
Here’s a synopsis:
“This intimate film, shot over three years with Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon and their children Kelly and Jack, as well as their close friends, follows the final chapter of Ozzy’s life. After 25 years living in LA, he and Sharon decide the time has come to return home to the English country house in Buckinghamshire, where they once brought up their family. But before he retires completely, he’s also determined to perform one last time for his army of fans.
Ozzy and Sharon face a monumental battle. As well as a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, Ozzy has had a succession of back surgeries following a fall, which have left him in extreme pain, frequently struggling to walk. So, that means lots more time spent at home surrounded by a growing army of grandchildren, as well as his pack of dogs, all 11 of whom get to share Sharon and Ozzy’s bed. For a man who has always questioned why go out at all when you have a house, this isn’t all bad.
The resulting film is a moving portrait of one of the world’s most entertaining families at a pivotal moment in their history. The strength of Ozzy and Sharon’s love for one another and their kids’ devotion to them is palpable. So too is the family’s acceptance of Ozzy becoming increasingly unwell. As Kelly poignantly puts it, the iron man isn’t made of iron.
But for all that, rock’s great survivor isn’t quite done yet. Ahead of retirement, Ozzy is determined to perform one last time, for himself and for his fans. Whatever it takes.
Pulling off both the move and the gig will be a phenomenal achievement, and son Jack is worried about the toll of relocating to a country that his parents have barely spent time in over the last two decades, as well as the impact on their close-knit family dynamics. But Ozzy has never been a man to take no for an answer, and he sets about achieving his goals with the determination, blistering honesty and razor-sharp sense of humour that have endeared him to millions for over 50 years. He stops at nothing to make his body work as well as it used to, with the film capturing remarkable levels of resolve.
Ozzy’s death, just two weeks after a final, triumphant, homecoming gig, is met with shock and grief around the world. Thousands of fans gather to watch his funeral cortege in his home town of Birmingham as it is live-streamed to viewers across the globe. The extraordinary impact of this working-class hero cannot be more apparent.
The film is a candid and moving portrait of Birmingham’s favourite son, and of the family that adore and support him through his last performance and the final chapter of his life.”
Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible is facing backlash for comments he made while answering fan questions on Instagram. The vocalist, who was previously accused of Nazism and homophobia, reinforced those allegations with responses he has since defended as “sarcasm.”
The following exchanges ignited the latest controversy:
Fan: “Are you homophobic?”
Alex: “Yes. Also a Nazi.
Fan: “Why are u a Trump supporter?”
Alex: “Who said that? You were misinformed. I’m Hitler supporter.”
Alex later responded to the backlash with the following:
“This is a clear example of why many people don’t like me — and some even hate me. A lot of people can’t even recognize sarcasm. And you think that’s my fault? Of course not. When people say I’m a terrible person, that I shouldn’t have a platform, and that I should be “canceled,” you’re dealing with exactly those kinds of people.
And believe me, I’ve chosen the “softest” answers here. I left out the obscene and vile ones. Then you ask me why people call me a transphobe, a Nazi, and so on? Because so many people are ready to believe literally anything they see on the internet. Because many of them don’t have a sense of sarcasm, or they simply lack the ability to analyze and structure information. And there are A LOT of such people. Some of them are just very young (which is an excuse for them), and others are simply very foolish.
I’m glad that these people avoid my company, but I’m not glad that they spread ridiculous rumors about me – because unformed minds are quick to believe them. And this doesn’tjust happen to me. Any drama that flares up on the internet about someone leads to public condemnation from these kinds of shallow people. Meanwhile, smart and reasonable people are reluctant to take part in it, because to them it’s obvious that it’s nonsense.
That’s why opinions and situations in real life and on the internet are completely different things. And that’s exactly why “cancel culture” mostly exists only online.
But despite all this, the business industry doesn’t want to risk its reputation. If they see how people online are turning against someone, they tend to listen to the opinion of the foolish herd. That’s how it has always worked.
And that’s why I want to express my deep gratitude to the people, companies and platforms that were never afraid to work with me and continue to collaborate with me and my band.
Of course, I also believe that even if everyone refuses to give you a platform, you can still build your own. Your own empire — independent of anyone. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing from the very beginning. And no matter what, I have many people who will always support me and who truly love me.
The ones who follow me believe that what I do and say is right. As for all the others who disagree with me, hate me for it, and want others to do the same – I wish them to go fuck themselves. I won’t be lenient or kind to you. I simply don’t care about you, or I’ll just tell you straight: fuck off.”
This led to another exchange:
Fan: “We get sarcasm, but thinking it’s funny to say someone is “homophobic, transphobic, a Nazi,” etc., is meaningless and not funny at all. There are plenty of ways to use sarcasm — and this certainly isn’t one of them.
I know this comment will be irrelevant to you, because in the end you only consider your own perspective. You don’t have the capacity to reflect on the place of someone who truly suffers from these kinds of attacks in a serious way (without sarcasm) and who finds nothing funny about it.
Imagine the things you wanted to omit… oh, our true King of Jokes.”
Alex: “Ohhh, here comes my favorite category of people! Who even gave you the right to decide where and how sarcasm can be used? Who made you the judge of humor, to determine whether it’s funny or not? You can only ever have a subjective opinion and your own sense of humor. You have no right to dictate where sarcasm can or cannot be used.
Listen to yourself from the outside — you sound extremely selfish. You say I don’t have the ability to put myself in the place of someone who truly suffers from such attacks in a serious way. And what are you basing that on? The fact that I use dark humor? That only shows that you can’t handle this kind of humor and that you’re more fragile than the people who actually went through something terrible in their lives and can laugh at it. Those people are much stronger than people like you — and I am one of them.
You have no idea who I am or what I’ve had to go through in my life. You’re just a weak person who finds it convenient to play the victim, wanting the whole world to revolve around you and everyone to cater to you. And if something doesn’t go your way, then of course it must always be someone else’s fault — never yours!”
[via The PRP]
Black Stone Cherry have revealed the details for their new EP “Celebrate.” The effort will be released on March 6 and it can be pre-saved HERE.
“Celebrate” Track Listing:
01. “Celebrate”
02. “Neon Eyes”
03. “Caught Up In The Up Down”
04. “I’m Fine”
05. “Deep”
06. “What You’re Made Of”
07. “Don’t You Forget About Me” (feat. Theory Of A Deadman’s Tyler Connolly)
Singer/guitarist Chris Robertson commented on the EP:
“Any piece of art is a snapshot of that artist’s life. So I look at these songs as a culmination of everything we’ve lived since ‘Screamin’ At The Sky.’”
Guitarist Ben Wells continued:
“None of us are precious, because we’re all fighting on the same team. So John Fred might have a guitar riff, or me or Chris might have a drum beat. And Steve is our bass player, but he played slide on the last album, and there’s parts on the new stuff where he plays guitar. It was cool to think you could start the day without a song, and five hours later walk out with a demo.”
A video for the effort’s first single, “Neon Eyes,” can be found below. The band added the following about that:
“For ‘Neon Eyes’ we had the riff recorded on an iPhone and immediately wrote a song around it when we first started writing for this EP. We knew we wanted the main riff to also be the chorus so once we landed on the title, everything fell into place. A classic BSC banger.”
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